Accepting strings about bibtex-tidy

[FlamingTempura]

@string is supported but there was a bug with parsing the line author=aubert#{ and }#Varacca.

I've fixed the bug and the above bibtex should now be correctly tidied.

[aubertc]

Thanks a lot for this patch!

But there is an additional difficulty, in that particular case…

As of now,

@string{Aubert={Aubert, Clément}}
@string{Varacca={Varacca, Daniele}}

@Inproceedings{Aubert2021h,
	author=aubert#{ and }#Varacca,
	title     =  {Processes, Systems \& Tests: Defining Contextual Equivalences},
	pages     = {1-21},
	doi       = {10.4204/EPTCS.347.1},
}

is tidied as

@string{Aubert={Aubert, Clément}}
@string{Varacca={Varacca, Daniele}}
@inproceedings{Aubert2021h,
	title        = {Processes, Systems \& Tests: Defining Contextual Equivalences},
	author       = aubert # {and} # Varacca,
	pages        = {1--21},
	doi          = {10.4204/EPTCS.347.1}
}

but "and" is not just any string: there must be a space before and after it to be treated correctly by bibtex.

Otherwise, when "substituting" the strings, we get

	author       = {Aubert, ClémentandVaracca, Daniele},

which will trigger complaints of the form

Too many commas in name 1 of "Aubert, ClémentandVaracca, Daniele}" for entry Aubert2021h

Indeed, bibtex expects to see

	author       = {Aubert, Clément and Varacca, Daniele},

i.e., with the spaces preserved.

[FlamingTempura]

Interesting, yeah I see that it's not ideal that bibtex-tidy always trims whitespace in braced values.

I've updated bibtex-tidy so that it will not trim braced values that are concatenated.

For your example we now get:

@string{Aubert={Aubert, Clément}}
@string{Varacca={Varacca, Daniele}}
@inproceedings{Aubert2021h,
	title        = {Processes, Systems \& Tests: Defining Contextual Equivalences},
	author       = aubert # { and } # Varacca,
	pages        = {1--21},
	doi          = {10.4204/EPTCS.347.1}
}

Let me know if that's solved your issue.

[aubertc]

Let me know if that's solved your issue.

It absolutely does, thanks!